In the last years of the Dayan Dynasty, evil spirits poured in from the earth's veins. If no one mourns the deceased within three days, and the resentment does not dissipate, he will turn into a demon.
Thirty miles outside Luoyan City is the Dry Bones Hill. Shen Yan is burying people here. He is the last mourner in Yizhuang - he has no rank, no status, and no one will remember him even after he dies.
He has a list that no one else can see. There are only three lines on the list: name, true cause of death, and whereabouts of the murderer.
Every word is true, but it must be read out by him personally before the funeral can be completed. He didn't speak, and three days later, the corpse got up on its own to look for someone.
What's even more troublesome is that every time you recite a sentence, the cause and effect changes. All the changes were recorded on him - injuries, bad luck, enemies coming to visit, and severing of relatives. Debt only makes you tired, but not eliminated.
So he just wanted to bury people quietly and live until the day he didn't have to speak.
But this world doesn't give it. If he recited a name, there would be one less murderer in the city; if he recited a corpse, someone would survive. The news travels faster than he does.
Those whom he could not afford to offend began to line up and kneel before him, begging him to speak.
Shen Yan lowered his head and looked at the feet of those people - he wanted to see clearly if anyone was following this person.
All he wanted in his life was a quiet job.
But right now, the entire Luoyan City is waiting for him to speak.
